Just wondering if you guys have any thoughts on this.
My sister has been complaining that her machine hasn't been booting properly: you push the power button and the red hard drive light comes on along with all of the fans, but the green "power" light doesn't do a thing. Apparently if she left it for a while it would eventually work, but it was bugging the hell out of her.
After fiddling about with it and getting no response at all for several hours I swapped the PSU out for the one in my machine which had been working fine. Sure enough her computer boots perfectly, so it looks like her PSU has gone.
Then I put my PSU back into my machine, tried booting it and got absolutely nothing. I fiddled about with my box a bit, checked everything was plugged in fine, nothing was shorting pins on the motherboard, etc., and tried again. Nothing. After some more non-specific fiddling my machine finally started booting again. Before I could finish my sigh of relief there was a small *pop*, and my machine lost power. Now I can't get my rig to boot either.
So, not only has my sister's PSU gone, but mine apparently has too (I'm about to try jumpstarting it to make sure). Like I said my sister's unit had been giving her boot problems, but the only thing I'd noticed with mine was a slight whine which I thought was pretty normal.
The only things in common I can think of are A) they were both hooked up to my sister's machine, but surely a dodgy motherboard can't fry a PSU? And B) they're both Zalman ZM500-HP units. Mine is something in the range of three years old, I think my sister's is about two years old. Does anyone have any ideas why they both appear to have died more or less at the same time?
Anyway, I'm now on the lookout for 2 PSU's capable of handling at most a Phenom II X3 720 with an ATI HD4770. Any suggestions? I really don't keep tabs on PSUs so I'm open to suggestions here.
EDIT: Think I've just discovered what was wrong with my machine. I was retrying things again and was plugging in the kettle plug when I got a shock off it. I've taken a look at it and there's a weird defect on the cable, like a little pucker mark as if someone had pushed a pin through the plastic from inside the wire. A different kettle plug lets my PSU boot and the POST gives me the error code for not having my GPU plugged in (I've taken everything out to make sure they're OK). So, hopefully my PSU fault is down to a dodgy cable, though I'm still nervous about where that popping poise came from...!
So, any suggestions for a new, ~400W PSU for my sister's rig?
My sister has been complaining that her machine hasn't been booting properly: you push the power button and the red hard drive light comes on along with all of the fans, but the green "power" light doesn't do a thing. Apparently if she left it for a while it would eventually work, but it was bugging the hell out of her.
After fiddling about with it and getting no response at all for several hours I swapped the PSU out for the one in my machine which had been working fine. Sure enough her computer boots perfectly, so it looks like her PSU has gone.
Then I put my PSU back into my machine, tried booting it and got absolutely nothing. I fiddled about with my box a bit, checked everything was plugged in fine, nothing was shorting pins on the motherboard, etc., and tried again. Nothing. After some more non-specific fiddling my machine finally started booting again. Before I could finish my sigh of relief there was a small *pop*, and my machine lost power. Now I can't get my rig to boot either.
So, not only has my sister's PSU gone, but mine apparently has too (I'm about to try jumpstarting it to make sure). Like I said my sister's unit had been giving her boot problems, but the only thing I'd noticed with mine was a slight whine which I thought was pretty normal.
The only things in common I can think of are A) they were both hooked up to my sister's machine, but surely a dodgy motherboard can't fry a PSU? And B) they're both Zalman ZM500-HP units. Mine is something in the range of three years old, I think my sister's is about two years old. Does anyone have any ideas why they both appear to have died more or less at the same time?
Anyway, I'm now on the lookout for 2 PSU's capable of handling at most a Phenom II X3 720 with an ATI HD4770. Any suggestions? I really don't keep tabs on PSUs so I'm open to suggestions here.
EDIT: Think I've just discovered what was wrong with my machine. I was retrying things again and was plugging in the kettle plug when I got a shock off it. I've taken a look at it and there's a weird defect on the cable, like a little pucker mark as if someone had pushed a pin through the plastic from inside the wire. A different kettle plug lets my PSU boot and the POST gives me the error code for not having my GPU plugged in (I've taken everything out to make sure they're OK). So, hopefully my PSU fault is down to a dodgy cable, though I'm still nervous about where that popping poise came from...!
So, any suggestions for a new, ~400W PSU for my sister's rig?
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perfect get one for both of you